UNLABELLED The R/Bioconductor package beadarray allows raw data from Illumina experiments to be read and stored in convenient R classes. Users are free to choose between various methods of image processing, background correction and normalization in their analysis rather than using the defaults in Illumina's; proprietary software. The package also allows quality assessment to be carried out on ...

While open-source tools exist to automatically segment and track cells in time-lapse microscopy experiments, the resulting output must be inspected to detect and remove spurious artifacts. In addition, data not exhibiting proper experimental controls must be discarded before performing downstream analysis. Currently, the data set is manually examined to accomplish these tasks. Here we present m...

This poem describes a riverine flood that occurred on Salt Creek (the Little Des Plaines River), Brookfield, Cook County, Illinois (4th congressional district), US, as part of extensive regional flooding in the Chicago area April 18-19, 2013. Both case report and epic, this hyperlocal work is post-postmodern (metamodern) baroque exploration human systems sense-making revealed through natural di...